So far from favoring me on account of my relation to him, he seemed to wish to demonstrate his impartiality by overruling my pleadings or instructing the jury against me.
John Sherman
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John Sherman was an American politician from Ohio who served in federal office throughout the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. A member of the Republican Party, he served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. He also served as Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State. Sherman sought the Republican presidential nomination three times, coming closest in 1888, but was never chosen by the party. Between 1861 and 1897, John Sherman served in the U.S. Senate for nearly 32 years and holds the record for longest serving senator from the state of Ohio.
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He gave me several opportunities for testing my qualities before a jury, so that I gradually gained confidence in myself as a speaker.
Contemporaneous with railroads came the telegraph, the cable, and the telephone.
The value of these railroads and their dependent warehouses and stations is probably greater to-day than the value of the entire property of the United States in 1840.
There is perhaps no more remarkable material development in the history of mankind than that of railroads in the United States since 1845.
The construction of railroads caused a most remarkable revolution in the habits and industries of our people.
Instead of assault and battery cases, suits for slander and the collection of debts, the attention of lawyers was directed to the development of railroads, banking institutions and other corporations.
While these causes were operating against lawyers, agents of nature, hitherto unknown, undiscovered, and wonderful, were being developed, which were to completely revolutionize the methods of travel, the transportation of goods, and the…
But it can be said that the leading members of the legal profession proposed and adopted these reforms, and always advocated any legislation that tended to simplify and cheapen litigation and at the same time protect life, property or…
These reforms, and the many changes made in the organization of our state and federal courts, have to a considerable extent lessened the fees and restricted the occupation of lawyers.
The new communities that have been founded in the west are largely composed of the sons and daughters of Ohio, who, following the example of their ancestors, seek new fields for enterprise and industry.
It is a type of what can be accomplished under favorable circumstances by a free people under a free government, where each citizen enjoys the full and undisputed possession of equal rights and opportunities.
In intelligence, means of education, temperance, order and religious observance, Ohio may fairly take its place among the most favored communities in the world.
Local or state pride is entirely consistent with the most devoted loyalty to the Union.
I concede that all the states, old or new, have contributed to the strength of the republic, the common hope and pride of all American citizens.
The people from the earliest days were born politicians, vigorous in the defense of their opinions and firm in the maintenance of all their rights.
The discipline of penitentiaries and reformatories and houses of correction is founded upon the best examples of such institutions in the older states, and the most civilized countries of Europe.
The standing, ability and influence of the men engaged in the professions in Ohio will compare favorably with any in the Union, and especially is this true of the lawyers of the state.
The same charity is extended to Jews and Gentiles professing any creed or having any form of worship.
Every denomination of Christians who number enough to make a congregation can readily secure a house of worship, not only by gifts from its members, but by contributions made by other professing Christians.
The charitable institutions of the state, including children's homes, are equal to the best in any country in the world.
The excellence of the system of common schools in Ohio is admitted on all hands to be equal to that of any other state or section.
Some of these schools have been so far advanced that in them any child showing proficiency can secure, without cost, an education fully equal to that furnished by the colleges of the country forty years ago.
At an early period the State of Ohio established the common-school system, by which every child between the ages of seven and fourteen years is furnished with the rudiments of a good education.
From the beginning Ohio has taken a leading part in furnishing facilities for education to the rising generation.
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